Former Muncie resident Karin Partin Wells left her cottage (it's among the row of houses you can see along the shoreline) behind and is holed up in a hotel in Connecticut.

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Former Muncie resident Karin Partin Wells is holed up with her husband in a hotel in Connecticut waiting out the storm.

Their home is about 100 feet from the water in Long Island South, northeast of Manhattan.

The couple, married just a little more than a month, bought the cozy little cottage - which is now situated in what officials are calling "the red zone" - just three weeks before Hurricane Irene. "So we had a better idea of how to evacuate quickly this time around," she said. ...